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Published by M. Coooper, London, 1748
Seller: THOMAS RARE BOOKS, Yaxley, SUFFOLK, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardback. Condition: V.g. 1st Edition. 316pp [pp 253-316 contains The Journal of George Jams i His Pilgrimage amongst the Inland Natives of the Countires Adjoyning to South Carolina [Field No 1618 Indian Bibliography]. Original full calf with the original red morocco label. Original owners name [George Basson ?] to the inside front endpaper[crossed out]. Title-page dated MDCCXLVII .The spine calf has a lengthways crack affecting the original label. All original state. A RARE ITEM. No copy appears to have been at auction since 1955. [Sabin 100991] 27x10cms Size: 12mo.
Published by London: Henry Frowde, 1903, 1903
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First complete Cruikshank edition, number 732 of 1,000 copies only, attractively produced and illustrated, and here handsomely bound by Bayntun. Though Cruikshank had contributed a single illustration to two lifetime editions (see Cohn 98-9), the bulk of his drawings, collected by his friend Edwin Truman, went unpublished until Truman decided to release this edition. Truman (1818-1905) was dentist to the royal household, an inventor of new methods in dentistry, and a notable book collector. "He took a special interest in collecting Cruikshank's satirical prints and caricatures as well as books illustrated by him, eventually forming the largest first-generation collection of his works" (ODNB). Cohn 100. Octavo (246 x 150 mm). Modern tan morocco by Bayntun, spine lettered and framed in gilt with black device in compartments, covers ruled in gilt, beaded gilt rule on board edges, turn-ins with black decoration at corners and multiple gilt and black rules, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Frontispiece and 24 woodcut plates on Japanese vellum with captioned tissue guards. Text printed on handmade paper. List of subscribers bound at end. A fine copy.
Published by Folio Society,, 2020
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
First Edition
8vo., First Edition thus, with 28 fine watercolour illustrations by Blake; pictorial blue cloth, upper board with red leather label framed and lettered in gilt, red leather back lettered in gilt, gilt top, ribbon marker, a fine copy in publisher's cloth slip-case with mounted coloured illustration (repeated from text). EDITION LIMITED TO 750 COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 209). A sumptuous edition, presenting the definitive text of Bunyan's masterpiece with all twenty-eight of Blake's original and visionary watercolour illustrations.
Published by A. W. for J. Clarke, at the Golden Ball in Duck Lane, London, 1731
Seller: Rosley Books est. 2000, WIGTON, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Woodcuts (illustrator). Twenty-third edition, with additions of. LONDON : 1731. ** Scarce** Bound with PART 2: LONDON: 1732 (15TH EDITION); PART 3: LONDON : 1733 (12th edition). Hardback. Woodcuts. Original full sheepskin-leather binding; plain blind-ruled spine. A well-thumbed and used copy. Frontispiece; title-page to parts one and two; third part (erroneous edition) was not issued with a frontispiece or woodcuts. The end has a brief biography called ?The Life & Death of Mr. Bunyan? and a two-page Elegy. Complete; close cropped as is quite usual. A few pages with edge wear and minor nicks. Leather chipped to foot of spine. Tight copy. Looks like later end-papers. GOOD. (x) 205, (i); (xii), 179, (i); (viii), 119, 28, (ii) pages. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. 12mo. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ]. SCARCE.
Published by Alex Hogg and Co, 1785
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover 8vo in good condition. Leather binding has signs of wear and aging. Boards have signs of scuffing and corners slightly bumped. Spine has most notable sings of wear, including where leather has worn down and there is cracking at the hinge. However, boards still sound and attached and in otherwise good condition. Spine has gilt underlining that has faded in some places and 'Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress' still visible. Undated/Circa 1785. All plates accounted for. Internal pages have signs of aging, including some that are slightly foxed but still in good condition with text clear. Some pages have signs of previous dog-earing. Printed for Alex Hogg and Co. Printed by Rider and Weed. 'Wherein is discovered, Part I: The Manner of His Setting Out; His Dangerous Journey; And His Safe Arrival At The Desired Country. Part II: The Manner Of The Setting Out Of His Wife And Children; Their Dangerous Journey; And Safe Arrival At The Desired Country.' 'An Entire New and Complete Edition, Revised, Corrected, and Improved. Embellished With An Elegant Set of Copper-Plates. To Which Are Now Added: The Life of Mr. John Bunyan, And Very Copious Notes by William Mason.'.
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Hughes-Stanton, Blair; Hermes, Gertrude (illustrator). Limited Ed. Hardbacks, original black stained vellum bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt titles to spines and front boards, no slipcase. Each volume 37cm x 28cm. Pp. 174, [1], 162. Wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton and Gertrude Hermes. No. 51 of a limited edition of 195 copies. Printed on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper by the Shakespeare Head Press. Spines slightly faded, a few light abrasions to boards. A very heavy set, additional postage will be required for orders outside the UK.
Published by Essex House Press, 1899
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. By John Bunyan. Full white vellum. Covers slightly dusty, fore edge little browned. Nice copy. Edward Arnold for the Essex House Press. One of 750 copies.
Published by London: Essex House Press; Published by Edward Arnold, 1899, 1899
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First Essex House Press edition, number 596 of 750 copies only; this copy owned by the press's co-founder Laurence William Hodson (1864-1933), with his book label on the front pastedown. Hodson was a brewer, art collector, and patron of William Morris. For Hodson's home in Compton Hall, near Wolverhampton, Morris designed his final wallpaper, known as the Compton pattern. Hodson and C. R. Ashbee (1863-1942), who managed the Guild and School of Handicraft, founded the press one year after Morris's death in 1896 "in the hope to keep living the traditions of good printing that William Morris had revived" (printer's note). To this end, they hired the Kelmscott Press's former pressman Stephen Mowlem and compositors John Tippett and Thomas Binning. This, the press's third book, is "charming to read and bravely set in the usual size of Caslon with a smaller version of Ashbee's initial letters" (Franklin, p. 79). A Bibliography of the Essex House Press, pp. 5-7; Franklin, p. 198; Ransom, p. 264. Sextodecimo. Original stiff vellum, spine lettered in black, yapp edges, leaves uncut and partially opened. Woodcut frontispiece, with tissue guard, by Reginald Savage. Text printed in red and black in Caslon type. Vellum lightly soiled with spots on rear cover, spine ends with couple of closed tears, foxing on edges, internally fresh. A very good copy indeed.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Thirty First Edition. Illustrated with many full page engravings. W.Johnston, 1766. Contemporary name on fly leaf. Contemporary full calf. Inner upper hinge a little weak o/w very good. EDWARD BAWDEN'S COPY with his dated INK SIGNATURE (1977) just beneath the contemporary name on the fly leaf. A most attractive and handsome copy.
Published by T.C. and E.C. Jack, London, [c.1910]
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Byam Shaw (illustrator). Illustrated by Byam Shaw with 30 full-page colour plates. 8vo. Newly bound by Bayntun-Riviere in full brown morocco, the covers with a gilt fillet border, the spine lettered in gilt on colourful leather labels with one line panels and tooled bands, hand-marbled endleaves, gilt edges.
Published by London : Printed and sold by all the Booksellers, 1758-61., 1758
Three parts. [6], 108; [8], 100; [2], 63, [1]; 16 p., Woodcut portrait and 6 metal cut plates as called for. Parts II and III each have a part title (that for Part III dated 1761) and register. 19cm. Recent period style blind panelled mottled calf, the central panel with outward facing diagonal corner tools. Spine with raised bands and a contrasting label. The paper lightly toned but a crisp, well margined copy. ESTC T58366 with no copies located in USA.
Limited Edition 68/750. 330mm x 250mm (13" x 10"). xxiv, 355pp. 28 colour plates. Heavy book extra shipping needed for overseas. VG : in very good condition with blue slipcase Blue hardback boards with maroon leather spine.
Published by London: Printed by A.W. for W. Johnston, at the Golden-Bull, in Ludgate-Street. 1761, 1760
Seller: Humber Books Ltd, Kingston Upon Hull, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo [5.00 tall x 3.75 wide]. [Part1] Collates complete [10], 205, [1]p. Engraved frontispiece. A very good, crisp and clean copy. Minimal light marks, blemishes or reading wear else a lovely copy. With woodcut illustrations throughout. [Part 2] Collates complete [12], 179, [1]p. Engraved frontispiece. A very good, crisp and clean copy in the main. Minor light marks, blemishes of reading wear else a very nice copy. [Part 3] Collates complete [6], iv, 119, [3], 30, [2]p. Engraved frontispiece. A very good, crisp and clean copy in the main. Minor light marks, blemishes of reading wear else a very nice copy. Bound in contemporary leather binding. Re-backed nicely with raised bands, blind lines and a hand-tooled, gilt-lettered label to the spine. MULTIPLE PHOTO IMAGES AVAILABLE. CONTACT US TO REQUEST.
Published by J. Parsons Oct 1st 1794, 1794
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
Condition: Poor. Original cover and spine faded, worn and knocked at corners. Cover coming away from book on front hinge but binding still strong. Slight browning and marks to pages but content in good condition with no pen marks. Two volumes bound in one book.
Published by Essex House Press, London., 1899
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition thus. 12mo. pp [iv], 426, [2]. Frontispiece, with tissue guard, by Reginald Savage. Full vellum with titles in black on spine. Number 208 pf 750 copies. The third book of the press. Pages unopened.Edges lightly spotted, otherwise fine.
Published by Hagger N.d.c.[1850 ], London, 1850
Seller: Richard Booth's Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
First Edition
HardBack. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Presumed 1st Edition Thus, J. Hagger, Paternoster Row, London, no date, circa [1850]. Folio, Very Thick Royal 8vo. lxi + 961pp. Profuse and wonderful illustrations by the great Horace Castelli, including; 31 full page engraved plate illustrations called for, collated all present and very good, with full tissue-guards intact, 2 of which black and white frontispieces to Pilgrim's Progress and Holy War, 29 full page colour plate illustrations, 91 black and white in-text engraved illustrations, decorated initial letters, additional full page plate not called for; 'Relics of Bunyan', with black and white engravings of Bunyan's pulpit, chair, cabinet, pocket-scales, large knife, pocket knife and apple scoop. Closed tear to leaf edge pp62 (1"), else very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or marks of any kind, well held in joints and hinges. Beautifully bound in gilt lettered calf leather half bound over wide weave cloth boards, gilt dentelles. Great shelf presence featuring 5 raised gilt decorated bands and 5 scrolled leaf gilt decorated compartments to sunned spine, gently rubbed to tail and extremities, rolled to lower corners, all edges very bright gilt. Huge and heavy tomes such as this incur additional postage, possibly prohibitively especially overseas. A great Edition for reader, scholar and collector alike, and a fabulous gift. Bunyan began writing Pilgrim's Progress whilst imprisoned for preaching Puritanism following the restoration of the monarchy. Grace Abounding was also written in prison, and is included in the present volume, along with Holy War, Divine Endeavours, Ebal and Gerzim, Scriptural Poems, Relation of Imprisonment and a Life of Bunyan. The Bible and Foxe's Book of Martyrs accompanied Bunyan in prison, and their influence in apparent in his writing of Pilgrim's Progress, a Frame Tale and Road Story, arguably in the line of descent from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and antecedent to Kerouac's On The Road!.
Published by [Original manuscript]., 1865
Book
Oblong (41.5 x 27.5cm). Early twentieth-century half brown morocco over brown linen; the boards ruled in gilt; the spine with five raised bands, ruled in gilt. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Engraved armorial bookplate for William Henry Willatt of Reighton Hall, East Yorkshire, to the front pastedown. Manuscript introductory note in ink by W. H. Willatt (the creator, Isaac Willatt's, son) dated 1934, affixed to the front free endpaper, and with additional presentation note to his grandaughter verso. The contents comprising 22 sheets of thick paper, each with a fine pen and ink drawing by Isaac Willatt to the recto (versos blank), numbered and captioned beneath. Condition is very good, the binding square and tight with a couple of minor marks to the upper board and a little rubbing to the extremities. The contents with a diagonal crease to the blank front endpaper, some light scattered foxing and occasional finger-marking to page margins are otherwise in very good order throughout. An exquisitely produced series of pen and ink drawings illustrating John Bunyan's famous Christian allegory 'The Pilgrim's Progress', forming a remarkably meticulous copy of the originals by Henry C. Selous, which illustrated an 1844 edition published by M. M. Holloway, London. The manuscript was created by Isaac Willatt for his fiancée in 1865, as the note by his son explains: "The following illustrations to Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress were copied by hand with pen and ink from the work of H. C. Selous. The copyist, (who had the illustrations lent to him by a friend), was Isaac Willatt junior of Nottingham, who had just become engaged to marry Mary Matthews, daughter of William Matthews of Wednesbury, Staffordshire, in August 1865; at that time Isaac Willatt junior was a member of the Robin Hood Rifle Volunteers at Nottingham, and this was regarded by Mary Matthews and her parents, (who were very strict Wesleyan Methodists), as being rather "fast", so to please his fiancée be gave up his membership of the Volunteers, and to fill up the spare time thus obtained, he laboriously copied by hand these illustrations, which the writer of this Memorandum caused to be bound within the present covers, as an appreciation of his father". A wonderful labour of love.
Published by The Folio Society, 2020
Book
Hardcover. Condition: New. Blake, William; Gilbert, Anne Yvonne (Binding Design) (illustrator). Limited Edition. Using the complete version of John Bunyan's classic text and setting it alongside all 28 of William Blake's stunning illustrations, this lavish limited edition has been given a treatment befitting its status as a literary and artistic treasure. This sold out, Folio Society edition was limited to 750 hand-numbered copies of which this is number 328. The book was received directly from The Folio Society and has only just been taken out of its shrink wrap. There are two tiny, barely noticeable, rubs to the leather, one to the head of the spine and the other low down on the front joint. The book and slipcase are otherwise immaculate. The first three photos are of this copy, others are stock images from The Folio Society. Quarter bound in red leather, blocked in gold foil. Teal cloth sides blocked on front in gold foil and printed with black ink. Leather title label blocked in gold, inset on front. Binding design by Anne Yvonne Gilbert. Book measures 12¾" x 9¾". Housed in an elegant slipcase which has curved edges to facilitate easy removal of the book. The slipcase is also covered in teal cloth, perfectly complementing the soft red leather of the spine. A panel has been blind-blocked on the front, inset with an illustration label and outlined with gold-blocking. Set in Poliphilus with Blado as display and printed on Arctic Volume Ivory paper. 384 pages. 28 watercolour illustrations by William Blake. Finished with red head- and tail-bands, a red ribbon marker and gilded top page edges, this is a unique publication, an exquisite edition of a timeless classic. In her introductory essay, Nathalie Collé reveals the sophisticated way in which William Blake responded to, and went beyond Bunyan's tale, to create his own idiosyncratic but extremely unified series of images.This is the only currently available edition of The Pilgrim's Progress to feature all 28 of Blake's watercolour illustrations. They are displayed alongside the complete and authoritative text established by respected Bunyan scholar Roger Pooley and complemented by his informative notes. Bunyan included marginal notes and biblical references throughout 'The Pilgrim's Progress', these too have been faithfully reproduced in this limited edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. As received directly from The Folio Society, removed from shrink wrap but still in its original FS cardboard packaging. Heavy/oversize book. U.K. postage at default charge but overseas buyers will be asked for extra. All orders professionally packed, tracked and/or signed for, and insured.
Published by London: Arthur L. Humphreys., 1906
Seller: Louis88Books (Members of the PBFA), Andover, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1906, Later Edition. The Royal Library Chef D Oeuvre Series. Full terracotta red leather binding, gilt letters A.B.E. to the spine, full leather boards, with two sets of steps in blind to the front board and the letters to the title on each step. With gilt page top edges and marbled end papers. The initials V.G. to the rear paste down leather. 327pp. Provenance: bookplate for Aubrey Earle, initials A.B.E. to the spine. Approximately 9 ½ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine very good condition gilt titles with initials ABE to the second compartment, five raised bands. Joints good condition worming or insect damage to the front joint. Corners good condition bumped. Boards good condition red terracotta leather with gilt titles and blind steps to the front board, insect or worming damage to the boards. Page edges very good condition top edges gilt, others untrimmed. See above and photos. Internally Hinges very good condition sound. Paste downs very good condition marbled. End papers very good condition marbled, bookplate. Title very good condition. Pages very good condition tanned. Binding good condition. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1906 Binding: Hardback.
Published by Adam and Charles Black, London, 1910
Leather. Condition: Near Fine. Gertrude Demain Hammond (illustrator). A beautifully illustrated copy of The Pilgrims Progress. In a beautiful tree calf binding by Bickers and Sons. Illustrated with eight full page coloured plates John Bunyan was an English writer and preacher best remembered as the author of the religious allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, regarded as one of the most significant works of religious English literature. In a full tree calf prize binding with gilt detailing. Externally, in lovely condition. Prize bookplate to Portsmouth Grammar School to the front pastedown. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean throughout with scattered spotting With previous owners ink inscription to the front free end-paper. Near Fine. book.
Published by LONDON JOHN WALKER, 1881
Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom
THE ELSTOW EDITION, BOUND IN FULL RED LEATHER, A.E.G., RAISED BANDS, WITH THE FRONT BOARD MADE FROM THE OAK TAKEN FROM ELSTOW CHURCH PREVIOUS TO RESTORATION 1880. ILLUSTRATED BY W GUNSTON AND OTHERS. 383 PAGES. REMAINS OF LABLE TO FRONT PASTE-DOWN, SOME FOXING TO THE PRELIMS., BUT GENERALLY CLEAN AND TIGHT. A SCARCE ITEM.
Published by Printed by J. M'Gowan, Great Windmill Street, Haymarket. [n.d., c.1838], 1843, London, 1838
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
8vo. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. ix + 563 pp. Although Divine Emblems has a separate title page, both pagination and register are continuous. Bound in half black morocco over marbled boards. Extremities worn, scattered foxing and browning and stained endpapers with traces of red sealing wax; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 2 hand coloured frontispieces, including A Plan of the Road from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City adapted to the Pilgrim's Progress, and by 6 engraved plates. The Directions to the binder, p.563, do not correspond to the plates in this edition. Scarce mid-Victorian edition of The Pilgrim's Progress, illustrated with engravings and two fine hand coloured plates. The notes were compiled by William Mason (1719-91), religious writer. ART / LITERATURE FICTION LIT. FICTION THEOLOGY- CHRISTIAN 17TH CENTURY 19TH CENTURY FINE BINDING ART / LITERATURE.
Published by London: George Virtue., 1847
Seller: McConnell Fine Books ABA & ILAB, Deal, KENT, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Full morocco, 10 inches tall. A delightful binding with gilt raised bands, extra gilt panels, dentelles and all edges. Embellished with full page engravings and many woodcuts within the text. From the Library and with the bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst. Some foxing, in particular on the title page.
Published by Glasgow: [s.n.], printed in the year, 1752., 1752
Seller: Humber Books Ltd, Kingston Upon Hull, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 8vo [6.75 tall x 4.50 wide]. ESTC ref; 006329875. Collates complete [8], 280p. A very good, clean and solid copy of this early Bunyan work. Engraved frontispiece present. With a rather unusual early stamped owners mark to the margin of the first leaf J. Wallace, 1786 . With a couple of owners signatures to the inner front board. No front endpaper present. With woodcuts throughout the text. Most Bunyan titles of this era are in very poor condition but this copy is in very nice condition. Presented in a nicely restored contemporary binding. Bound in full contemporary leather with blind tooled borders. Nicely re-backed in a matching period style with blind lines to the spine. MULTIPLE ADDITIONAL PHOTO IMAGES AVAILABLE. CONTACT US TO REQUEST.
Published by The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1928
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Edited by James Blanton Wharey. Illustrated with 17 plates of facsimile title-pages to early editions. 8vo. Bound c.2000 by Bayntun-Riviere in full tan morocco, a decorative gilt block on the cover, the spine lettered and dated in gilt with floral centre tools, hand-marbled endleaves, gilt edges.
Published by London Publishing Co., London, 1860
Seller: Appleford Bookroom, Abingdon, OXON, United Kingdom
Half Red Leather + Marble. Condition: Very Good. 36 Full Page Engravings (illustrator). Leather EdItion 2 Vols. 1300+xliii pp.in 2 vols, 36 full page plates, half red leather, 5 raised bands, gilt tooling, rather rubbed marble with matching marble sides, blue endpapers, clean bright text but some light foxing mainly on the plate pages,but mostly on the edges not on main plate itself, folio size, every text page set within a ruled border. Introduction to Pilgrim's Progress by Robert Maguire. Altogether an excellent 2 vol set for its age even if some small wear to leather edges & minor occasional foxing. A major edition of Bunyan. Size: Folio.
Published by M. Luckman, Coventry and J. Mathews, 18 Strand, London,, 1791
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
2 parts in one vol., 12mo., on laid paper, with an engraved frontispiece and 8 engraved plates, some mild age-staining (rather heavier on frontispiece and some plates), contemporary name on title; strongly and attractively bound in early nineteenth-century half roan, marbled boards tooled in gilt, back with four flat bands elaborately tooled in gilt, second compartment lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, a very good, firm copy in well-preserved period binding. With three pages of hymns and single-page publisher's advertisement at rear. L6 has short tear (not affecting text) and neat repair at upper margin. The work is divided into two parts as often. Burder was a Congregationalist minister [sometime active in Coventry] who began life as an engraver but subsequently played an important role in the founding of the RTS. His edition of 'The Pilgrim's Progress' (1786) is the first to be divided into chapters and was frequently reprinted. This is apparently the second Coventry printing; we have a note of an earlier (1790) version issued by Luckman & Suffield. In the earlier issue the pagination is similar but the plates include a frontispiece to each part; here the number of plates remains the same, but all are numbered for inclusion in the first part. Rare. ESTC lists only the 1786 edition.
Published by Dumpy 12mo, itle, woodcut frontis, 426p, colophon, Essex House Press, London, 1899., 1899
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Set in Caslon and printed in black and red on hand-made paper. One of 750 copies. Woodcut frontispiece by Reginald Savage. Bound in full stiff vellum with yapped edges, spine titled in black. A very near fine copy.
Published by J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd. London. 1927, 1927
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Illustrated Edition. Reprint. Originally published in 1910. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.6 inches). Highly decorative title page and 12 full page colour plates by Pape. Fine, clean copy in a fine leather binding by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Contemporary full tan morocco. Spine with raised bands. Compartments box ruled and decorated with corner pips in gilt. Blind ruling extending onto boards and ending with a floral device around each raised band. Gilt ruled border, with triple corner pips and title in gilt, on boards. Gilt ruled turn-ins. Decorative endpapers. All edges gilt. A fine, bright copy in a highly attractive early binding.
Published by Huntley & Palmers, Reading & London. UK, 1900
Seller: Sue Lloyd-Davies Books, CARMARTHEN, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Unknown. A GOOD PLUS/NEAR VERY GOOD fancy embossed British Biscuit Tin from Huntley & Palmers, in shape of a small Library of bound CLASSIC BOOKS, each with a separate embossed design/title and individual marbled edges, all encircled with a 'simulated leather' tin strap. The Tin box measures approximately 6 ¼ in x 6 ¼ x 4½ in. (c. 16 cm x16 cm x 11. 5 cm). Its appearance, although moulded in tin, is that of eight 'leather bound' books all tied together with a 'leather' strap. The 'spines' have the titles of eight novels. The 'fore-edges' and the 'top & bottom edges' are in various types of marbling. The top panel of the box opens on a hinge with a metal tab to reveal the inside - now empty. Undated but about 1900 according to research, but these book tins were one of the most popular tins with customers and were produced, in ten different variations, until 1924. The brand name "Huntley & Palmers Biscuits Reading & London" is stamped on the bottom centre of the box. This 'Library' consists of - Gulliver's Travels; Burns; Robinson Crusoe; Pickwick Papers; Self-Help; Shakespeare; Pilgrims Progress and The History of England. NO Date but probably Turn of the Century, and produced by the newer 'offset lithography' process for printing on metal. This new technique allowed the manufacture of more complex shapes and coloured tins. Some scratches, marks, ingrained dust, some old rust, and wear, but overall this item is one of the Nicest, Brightest versions of this 'BOOK BOX' I've seen in a very long time, as most have rusted/worn badly and made the books almost invisible - and I've been in the book trade for over 40 years! SEE IMAGES. ; 6 ¼" x 6 ¼ " x 4 ½".